The World Health Organization and the Transition From "International" to "Global" Public Health
Theodore M. Brown, PhD,
Marcos Cueto, PhD and
Elizabeth Fee, PhD
Theodore M. Brown is with the Department of History and the Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY. Marcos Cueto is with the Facultad de Salud Pública, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru. Elizabeth Fee is with the History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md.
"War on the Malaria Mosquito!" Poster produced by the Division of Public Information, World Health Organization, Geneva, 1958. Courtesy of the World Health Organization. Source: Prints and Photographs Collection of the National Library of Medicine.
Current Director General Jongwook Lee with three former Directors-General at the celebration to mark the 25th Anniversary of the Alma Ata Declaration. From left: G. H. Brundtland, H. Mahler, H. Nakajima, Lee JW. Courtesy of the World Health Organization. Source: Media Center, WHO.